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Colour is the second album by British soul group The Christians.It was released in January 1990 by Island Records and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart. [1] It also reached the Top 20 in several European countries due, notably, to the success of its lead single "Words".
Their second album, Colour, released in 1990, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart [9] and the top 20 in several other countries; [10] it yielded the international hit "Words", [11] based on the Irish traditional "Women Of Ireland", [12] which was No. 18 in the UK [7] (including the Hillsborough charity single, their eighth consecutive UK ...
AllMusic has retrospectively been generally favourable towards the album, stating that the band "blend socially conscious lyrics of life under Thatcher with smooth, slickly programmed pop-soul arrangements" and concluding that the record was "a solid debut with very few filler tracks".
The Best of The Christians is a compilation album by English music ensemble The Christians, released in 1993 on Island Records.It includes most of the band's singles [1] from their first three studio albums—The Christians (1987), Colour (1990) and Happy in Hell (1992)—plus new song "The Perfect Moment" and a cover of Bob Marley's "Small Axe", originally the B-side to their 1988 "Harvest ...
"Words" is a song by English band the Christians. It was the first single from their second album, Colour (1990). Released on 11 December 1989, the song reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart and became a number-one hit in France, where it topped the SNEP chart for two weeks in May 1990. "Words" additionally became a top-10 hit in Belgium ...
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For a brief time following Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on records by acts as diverse as The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst former singer Lorita Grahame lent her vocals to a record released by short-lived One Little Indian act Hit the Roof (on a cover of Edwin Starr's "Contact").
[16] Colour by Numbers was ranked at number seven among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by NME. [17] In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Jose F. Promis wrote: "The songs were infectious, the videos were all over MTV, and the band was a media magnet." He deemed the album "flamboyant, fun, sexy, soulful, colorful, androgynous, and carefree ...